1. Diverging pathsIndonesia and Cameroon

   Indonesia and Cameroon: similar GDP per person in 1990, 3.1 times apart in 2025

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   Output per person a year, in 2021 dollars adjusted for price differences: $4,900 in Indonesia and $4,500 in Cameroon in 1990; $15,100 and $4,900 in 2025. Indonesia grew 3.1-fold; Cameroon rose 9%.

   Source: World Bank (WDI, ITU and UNESCO data); UN WPP 2024Open on the chart →

More findings

• Cameroon: more babies born than in Japan
• Indonesia: 73% are online, but only 30% have clean water at home whenever needed
• Indonesia: the share of adults with obesity has overtaken the share going hungry
• Cameroon: more adults live with obesity than use tobacco
• Indonesia: 1.01 million more people died than usual in 2020–2021; officially 144 thousand died of COVID
• Cameroon: the share of adults with obesity has overtaken the share going hungry

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